Lobbying Relationship

Client

Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association

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Lobbying firm

CAPITOL DECISIONS, INC.

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  • Hydraulic fracturing related issues.
  • Job creation and retention issues.

Duration: to

General Issues: Clean Air & Water (Quality), Environmental/Superfund, Fuel/Gas/Oil, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Banking, Natural Resources, Indian/Native American Affairs

Spending: about $330,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2008: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate,, U.S. Senate, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Bills mentioned

S.3815: Promoting Natural Gas and Electric Vehicles Act of 2010

Sponsor: Harry Reid (D-Nev.)

H.R.2766: Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act of 2009

Sponsor: Diana DeGette (D-Colo.)

S.1215: Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals (FRAC) Act

Sponsor: Bob Casey (D-Pa.)

H.R.4213: Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010

Sponsor: Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.)

H.R.2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009

Sponsor: Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.)

S.1733: Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act

Sponsor: John Kerry (D-Mass.)

S.1462: American Clean Energy Leadership Act of 2009

Sponsor: Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.)

S.3217: Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010

Sponsor: Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.)

H.R.4173: Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

Sponsor: Barney Frank (D-Mass.)

H.CON.RES.85: Setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government...

Sponsor: John M. Spratt Jr. (D-S.C.)

S.CON.RES.13: An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget...

Sponsor: Kent Conrad (D-N.D.)

H.R.611: Marginal Well Production Preservation and Enhancement Act

Sponsor: Dan Boren (D-Okla.)

S.286: Marginal Well Production Preservation and Enhancement Act

Sponsor: James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.)

S.22: Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009

Sponsor: Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.)

S.247: Accelerated Retirement of Inefficient Vehicles Act of 2009

Sponsor: Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)

S.3036: Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008

Sponsor: Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)

H.R.1424: A bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and...

Sponsor: Patrick J. Kennedy (D-R.I.)

H.R.6049: Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008

Sponsor: Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.)

H.R.6899: Comprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act

Sponsor: Nick J. Rahall II (D-W.Va.)

S.3395: Marginal Well Production Preservation and Enhancement Act

Sponsor: James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.)

H.R.6697: Marginal Well Production Preservation and Enhancement Act

Sponsor: Dan Boren (D-Okla.)

H.R.5351: Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008

Sponsor: Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.)

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Lobbyists

Lobbyists named here were listed on a filing related to this lobbying engagement. They may not be working on it now. Occasionally, a single lobbyist whose name is spelled two different ways on filings may be represented twice here.

Lobbyist Covered positions?
Brook A. Simmons Legislative Director, Senator Don Nickles
Brook A. Simmons (COP cont.) Communications Director, Senator Don Nickles Press Secretary, Representative Ed Whitfield Deputy Press Secretary, Senator Don Nickles
H. Stewart Van Scoyoc n/a

Disclosures Filed

Once a lobbying engagement begins, the lobbyist or firm is required to file updates four times a year. Those updates sometimes change which lobbyists are involved or add new issues being discussed. When lobbyists stop working for a client, the firm is also supposed to file a report disclosing the end of the relationship.

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Source: Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate

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